In 2013 cartoonist Norm Augustinus created an animated cartoon that depicted a drone equipped with a laser beam. The cartoon drone used its onboard laser beam to erase Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi. The cartoon was very controversial and racked up over eleven million hits in less than a month. In 2013 the Secret Service visited Augustinus at his home on Michigan. Augustinus is the first cartoonist in the U.S. to be questioned by the Secret Service with regards to a political cartoon.